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You Ain’t Gonna Believe This!

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  • Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump. (Which is probably a good thing …)
  • In Alaska, it’s illegal to whisper in someone’s ear while they’re moose-hunting.
  • If you yell continuously for 8 years you could generate enough sound-energy to heat a cup of coffee.
  • Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise. 
  • McDonald’s daily customer traffic is 62 million – that’s more than the population of Great Britain.
  • The Swine Flu vaccine in 1976 caused more illness and death than the disease it was intended to prevent.
  • A raisin dropped into a glass of champagne will bounce up and down continuously.
  • Imagining doing exercises actually increases muscle strength.
  • Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself. (Gag!)
  • The letter J does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements.
  • Around 13% of people who read this list will drop a raisin into a glass of champagne to see if it bounces. 
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